that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. monday the 13th of april when the headlines for martin international day the new york governor pledges of funding to support medics but health care workers hit back saying it was his budget cuts that led to today's dire lack of resources he betrayed at every single agency every single. state. as the worst since here in moscow city leaders bring in a digital permit system to control travel around the capital and the wider region. but to the lasting effects of social distancing what happens next as a leading american doctor says we should all permanently handshakes to stop the spread of illness but discuss the isolation will affect all future interaction. was

being promoted in the name of no is actually the erosion of human contact with you in solidarity and social isolation is a privilege for those that don't have to like the place we're in close proximity or die of starvation not an option for billions of people around the world. they're welcome to the program has just turned 1 pm here in moscow this monday my name is kevin owen i'm here with this 30 minute world news roundup for you and 1st here's this is where we are on the numbers today as we enter a new week it's 4 months now since the 1st infections began to cause concern around the world as of now more than 1800000 cases have been logged more than 114000 people have died the number of people known to have recovered from coburg 19 is now more than 431000.

so in the latest developments next to new york the worst affected state in the world's worst affected country the governor of new york's planning now to launch a fund to support medics but it's backfired there's skepticism from unions who blame him for budget cuts which they say have squeezed resources and left them ill equipped for the pandemic now with more on that than the similar struggles elsewhere in the world here's our senior correspondent. isn't in the standings that something super tiny a virus which isn't even technically considered alive has humbled us through all our technology for all our knowledge and hubris ami's robots rockets with powerless we have nothing to fight it with but there are those who fly to a godless every day into the jaws of infection or warriors in this life and death

battle the incredible doctors and nurses and health care workers on the front line of the fight physios radiograph was pharmacists who kept coming to work kept putting themselves in harm's way for years we took what medical professionals did for granted this is a given they didn't get parades all fireworks it took a pandemic for the world to wake up to the service and sacrifices that medics make is a process well and the commitment of that i make tonight for health care workers and for the entire nation is that once the crisis is over a massive investment plan and an upgrade of career paths will be put in place for our hospital system we think the federal government should set up a hero's compensation fund to compensate our health care and other front line workers for what they did here oh they're thankful now they are on camera he didn't mention how under him and his predecessor they eliminated 20000 hospital beds to

cut costs the french president doesn't mention how successive governments try to skimp on health care for years longer hours few abed's nurses doctors less equipment and less money. over the world while military budgets explode. that politicians rule the dice on which hospital to close next and no one can claim that they didn't warn us. odd that. the end result has been that we don't have enough of anything that we need not beds nor hospitals no ventilators 1st world nations with astronauts in space ascending

the nurses to work in trash bags here troll to noons one mouse over and over a period of cruel irony over and over to turn their mouths or if you're good to be special and told to use what entire we don't have good politicians they were warned time and time again that this could happen sure it would have been expensive to prepare the turns out it would have been cheaper than doing nothing. the world is not prepared for a fast moving global respect that would kill up to $80000000.00 people devastate economies and create social chaos and yet those medics that we try to skimp and save money on they care for us every day in america france or russia these medics who to work every day knowing that there's

a serious risk of infection and with the dignity to avoid mentioning that they warned us were unprepared as health care system one that was already broken prior to this and is completely destroyed at this point we were unprepared as a country it's unfortunate how it everything played out how every person dallas responsible for making sure we were protected so that we could do our work properly and save other people fail to do that they completely let us down they betrayed us every single agency every single federal government fell does every single person that was there that was supposed to provide us what we needed that was supposed to assist us and give us support during these difficult times so that we could do what we needed to do would be properly if equally fail to do that we were left alone. to figure it out on our own we're going to be damaged as a result of this i don't know what are we going to end up i don't know what we're

going to look like after this but if we're never going to be this way health care is never going to be the same healthcare workers are never going to be the same this is as completely destroyed. everything that it could. even. our trust. you know a lot of people pondering on what's going to happen in the future will the growing calls in from so the urgent need to develop an exit strategy from the covert 90 lockdown president across due to give a nationwide address more than on monday evening unscrew the hospital in paris. are there any idea what emanuel macross likely to say later. well the suggestion is that the president is going to announce that the lockdown would be extended right the way through and still made may that would mean if that's the case france would be facing 2 months in total of the lockdown of course that's been going on since march 17th here already also suggestion that the president may say

that schools will not reopen and till at least september now this comes as we're getting better figures in terms of the death rate lowering from kovac 19 of the last 2 days in the 24 hours to sunday some 315 people lost their lives that was down from 345 the previous day also suggestion that the number of people in intensive care is also decreasing at that's been decreasing now for 4 days in a row but the question on everybody's lips is what is the exit strategy you just can't continue to have a lockdown forever but one report from the medical institute is warning that there isn't one in place that they're aware of and without one the consequences could be dire with a 2nd wave that could just overwhelm the health care system here in france left in lockdown with no additives strategy in place will inevitably lead to larger bands

of facts as the immunity of population is estimated to be still very low from one to 6 percent. meanwhile there's pressure on the government to try and get the economy moving we know that france is already in a recession and some people are suggesting this is the worst recession since 1945 remember some 30 to 40 percent of businesses are just completely shut down with no taking at all now the head of the employers union in france this is medicine is actually warning that when we do go back to work that french citizens may have to work harder and longer. we will have to ask ourselves the question of working time sooner or later public holidays and paid leave to accompany the recovery and to facilitate by working a little more the creation of additional growth. well you know as you can imagine that's not everybody's cup of tea and employers unions are serious about this.

so it is utterly indecent to ask people to work more it's not up to them to pay the costs of this coronavirus crisis. well there's huge presence at this huge pressure on the president in this address tonight it will be one of several addresses made to the nation since the start of the pandemic and the lockdown here in france and it comes at a time when some 38 percent of people in one poll suggest that they just don't trust the government to deal with this crisis but we'll be watching to see exactly what president back on says will bring you the latest here these decisions will be made by world leaders all around the world on the dichotomy what to do do you try and get the economy going again and risk it all flared up again the virus to be a world leader no woman to do that folks listening to what he's going to saying he was posted later charlotte. now digital permit system starts rolling here in moscow this monday to try and could tell nonessential travel around the region the

mayor is also shuttering the majority of nonvolatile enterprises from today the outbreak here in russia is worsening another daily record this monday to tell you about with 2558 new cases with more than 1300 of them here in moscow so it could taylor's more of the capital's new restrictions in force than. but i'm just standing opposite the mayor's office right here in the center of moscow and it's located on the main street all the way down to red square and not direction is kind of the equipment of london's oxford street cars to shanties a new york's 5th avenue so usually it's obscene jump packed with both cars and people but today you can see there are relatively few cars and almost no pedestrians why well new harsha knocked down matches have come into effect this monday so from now on until the touches of april trouble within the city will be regulated by a strict cost system so how to set up false starts $3.00 stages to the 1st stage of

promise for people traveling to and from but the 2nd stage of the tricks of the frying tees on the front stage will actually be to limit movement within your own neighborhood now so far around 780000 costs have already been given out just to give you an idea must the house around 13000000 residents i'm actually one of those 718000 you can see right here this is my permit it comes in an electronic form it's got serious information so it's obviously got my name it's got my e-mail address it's got my possible information it's got the time limits of mine is going to last until the 13 april but the most important thing it has is right here at the very top and that is a sin old code not this is the code it's a policeman comes up to me it says can i see your comment that is the code i'll give him he'll check it interested and then heard from you also let me carry on and i'll be trying this with me everywhere i go if i'm going to tax if i'm going on the cheap from walking down the street the only time that i will safely leave it at

home is fun throwing up my rubbish or walking my unfortunate imaginary dog or going to my local shop now this is a significant tightening of the restrictions on till now we've just been requested to sit at code but given the recent such in the number of coronavirus cases here in russia the moscow authorities. they were really left with no other option but to impose more stringent measures so that the latest count is that i'll just tell you that 18000 cases here in russia around 2500 new ones in the last 24 hours and the death toll partly stands out $148.00 now moscow was russia's largest city accounts around 2 of cool russian codes it 19 cases now you don't actually need to look at the figures to see that increase just looking around on the streets are noticeably more on kill it says in fact of the 2 recent meet came out showing a few of confidences waiting to drop top us suspect is covering

a high risk. patients not to panic on the outskirts of moscow now on average jane 1300 people have been transported by ambulance to the top flight hunted just a week for these new restrictions with police it brought in because unfortunately some people are still refusing to abide by the state october diakite something that w h o says is obviously only busting the situation but the good news is is that the positive results of this new process didn't seem to already be showing because according to the app that rates how well the city itself isolates most currently its rating at $4.00 out of 5 that's up from this time last week a 3 point one so it seems that the system is beginning to show the positive benefits of people coming together be more disciplined yes the sun is shining yes bring has arrived but it's a health crisis to people a staying in and doing that part to ensure the health and safety of all the thought

i must of bytes you know those couple of hours ago the sea this is so central moscow looks right now live pictures most of the bolshoi theater looking towards the as they do with their the lower house of parliament just a few 100 meters from red square and the kremlin which any time this week is usually bustling with people and cause i think the most notable thing you'll see some cause comes from the minute. when the traffic lights change there are few of them still around but nowhere near what like it is normally the main thing is so few people are everyone inside now because they need to start getting these digital passes to explain where they're going from when the state is mandated tree there is a all risk of a $70.00 fine if you don't have one. so russia has so far conducted more than 1300000 coronavirus tests one of the major test manufacturers is getting backing from the russian direct investment fund which is the government vehicle for economic investment i spoke direct to chief executive carol dmitri of where russia is in terms of testing hereis. well we already

manufactured 500000 cuts and wheels of track to have more than 1000000 best manufactured every week and what is unique about the system that we have invested in and look at the way it is systems and we believe testing is very important is that the system is one of the most precise and more systems in the world we can test wasn't going to be a more well known mobile units that looks like a suitcase and it can be used at airports and schools and different places and factories and we believes at best it has to be much more ubiquitous and we believe that russia is moving forward to do more testing we can find 100 units of virus which basically means that we can identify a person on the 1st day of the infection and this is important because of the test and systems you know find people one week later the weeks later but identifying people early it allows us to treat those people sooner and allows them to in fact 5

fewer people so we believe in early testing as a key criteria of success insofar as the virus and by the way out deaths have been used in australia in u.e. in other countries and we believe in international cooperation we believe it's very important that contra shared information shared to all the g.'s share prochoice we have a local or from china you know lots of countries have a lot to learn from russia i think international cooperation is vital to fight for the virus well some positives to think about out of the misery of all this with a lot of times concert a tranquil silence around the world is what the night has breathing a sigh of relief at least in the air is clear in the many polluted cities and wildlife making the most of the new does it in streets which people have been sharing online.

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again i would shake your hand but the way we personally greet each other could be about a change forever as one of america's most prominent experts on infectious diseases suggest we should all give up and shake from the album future it's being played that stopping the centuries old tradition would not only prevent the spread of coronavirus but also the common cold. i don't think we should ever shake hands ever again to be honest with you not only would it be good to prevent corona virus disease it probably would decrease instances of influenza dramatically in this country you know neal discussed how the pandemic might shape our future then with an expert panel. if it was somehow universally adopted out how big a difference would it make you know a sense what what what was being promoted in the name of health is actually the

erosion of human contact and human solidarity and it seems to me that if you begin to medicalize human relationships and contacts into is being suggested it simply makes the divisions and the tension that already exists so much more difficult to bear i think that's something we should very strongly oppose and that is that a lot of people are talking about now and i watch television i see people very close to each other there are strangers talking to each other or people shaking hands and yet they're disgusted i think that's quite unsettling this is a class pandemic that is several billions of poor people around the world crowded in corridors in the world's megacities they're forced to do jobs that involve physical contact and close proximity to others they have no other choice social isolation is a privilege for those that don't have to either face work in close proximity or die of starvation in the future after the pandemic is over such things as no longer hand shaking or having those physical contacts not an option for several billions

of peoples around the world how easy do you think it will be after being told for so long to move away you know social distancing isolation supermarket rushing how do you expect the public to react when when the measures are lifted as this as the measures begin to recede hopefully we will see ourselves going back to i think all their farms of social contact think a portion of global humanity is going to be more cautious there's going to be of course the psychological trauma of having emerged from this pandemic but again i see the world from the viewpoint of that's 34b5b that are the most outcast and the most downtrodden and their secondary concern is shaking hands in physical presence maybe there 1st is that still going to be daily survival in this in stream leon equal global says. i agree that we live in what the pandemic has done is that it's created a 2 tier system it made it even more rigid many respects what

a pandemic has really done is reinforce trends there were already exist in existence in the economy prior to that way that celebrated it it intensified it and in that sense divisions and differences in lifestyle are going to become even more pronounced what happens now are we still helping to be monitored cutted encourage people to test each other to the authorities what's your take is the next stage in exchanging of freedoms for security which is basically to make our private lives negotiable i will go worried in the way in which those all the stock works governments into using these new outs that will monitor us but it does seem to me that it does give enormous power over to the authorities and my understanding of human history is that whenever you give all your freedoms to the authorities didn't just go back to you there is a very potentially quite a quite a difficult situation coming up as far as question of freedom is concerned.

headlines a brief there's been a corona virus outbreak on board this earth french navy aircraft carrier saying 50 cases are registered on the shelves to call which is docked in the mediterranean port of $2.00 and $3.00 sailors are in hospital as a precaution while the remaining crew quarantined on board for 2 weeks and i wearing face masks. now while some police chief runs to check on social distancing distancing compliance in germany to his english thing an airship it's a look for groups of people around the picturesque lake constance near the swiss border the authorities say it's better for higher altitude monitoring and furthermore they say it's quieter over the sun easter we can report those pictures here stay a gathering say in berlin's park despite advice to strong advice to stay home this next. what we have here well on

a positive note this alfresco concert comes courtesy of spanish police no less the game staffer 100 hospital a bit of a time out for a minute or 2 some of the medics joined in as well singing along to a popular national song it's. nice to see the creativity talk in a way that show while away the long hours stuck indoors is definitely bringing out people's hidden talents in russia of course the same thing happening so it's isolation arts no less a facebook group where people are uploading images of themselves recreating masterpieces with anything that comes to hand it's become a hit worldwide with more than 400000 followers so let's finish with a little exhibition she was.

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the day or. week. i'm action or times when you're watching going on the ground the whole team here hope you're all safe we're away until wednesday the 22nd of april but in the meantime we're screening somebody a favorite episodes of the coming up in this show we ask legendary activist and

inspiration for the rolling stone street fighting man tariq ali if anything has changed since he took part in the biggest global peace protest of the 21st century against the unchecked imperialism the destroyed iraq and destabilize the world plus as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage europe what does it mean for capitalism kashmir and the future of the world's most famous publisher judy and. also more coming up in today's going on the ground but let's go straight to one of the greatest living political activists and writers who has inspired antiwar figures from malcolm x. to john lennon tariq ali joins us from his north london home via skype thanks so much for coming on the program i have to declare an interest because you brought me to channel 4 in the 1980 s. and you were my boss but what would you say you know to the millions. who have been inspired by your work the fight for freedom and justice that you've undertaken in your life what would you say to them who are now profoundly pessimistic about the neo liberal response to a pandemic let alone gross inequality around the world won't basically we find.

it's difficult to come up from the streets because of the nature of this epidemic but i think what the epidemic actually teaches us is that the system under which we live is a soundly floor. and it does not alter the world a future that is worth living to put it at its heart i mean the notion that well is the only do not of nature to prove the earth so much time and thence to this day and wealthy people will get their way. by saving their lives i don't practice them that but what about the restaurants the work so i take the new learn broke up into a system which has been in full snow effectively see.